Sentences with phrase «behind sea walls»

These snails actually live on the backside of the island, but land fill material from there has been used to build up the beach behind sea walls, so some empty shells can be found in front of some of the beach front buildings.

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Though the engineering challenges are substantial, the principle is simple: Build a dike to wall off the sea, pump out the water to drain the land behind it, let the soil settle, and build.
They savored the view from behind a 22 - foot - high sea wall, a common sight along this eroding stretch of coast.
In Manchester By The Sea, he makes emotional numbness compelling, revealing grace notes of humor and compassion in a character who hides his heart behind a wall.
Hidden behind a wall that shields villa guests from prying eyes without taking away from the sea views, the double - storey Villa LeGa is built around a central 12 - metre swimming pool, complete with outdoors shower and various water features, which takes up most of the garden space...
Take Rosy Keyser's Big Sugar Sea Wall (2012), a large work in which sheets of corrugated steel and polycarbonate have been hammered onto and behind a wooden frame.
In a set of papers in the July issue 2009 of Nature Geoscience (behind a pay wall) devoted to sea - level rise,... researchers are acknowledging that a single value of projected sea level doesn't fit all.
It is the gallery wall behind the TV with the image of the sea horse on it.
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